China: Guizhou riots over cover-up of teenager's death

With the help of about 100 other inhabitants, Li Shufens parents Li Xiuhua and Luo Pingbi mounted a 24-hour guard around their daughters coffin. They told the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post they feared local police would steal the corpse to hide evidence of the crime, and that there had already been two attempts to do so on June 22 and June 26.

A police investigation concluded that Li had committed suicide by jumping into the river, and denied all allegations of criminal behavior.

Mass rioting erupted after Li Shufens uncle, Li Xiuzhong, a high school teacher, went to local police to protest their handling of the case and was badly beaten. A resident told Agence France-Presse reporters in Wengan: As he was a teacher at the local high school, students from local schools went to the police to ask for justice, dozens of them I think, then some students were beaten by the police.